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August 31, 2006

Firefox 2.0 Beta 2 Improves Visual Theme

Mozilla hired Radiant Core, a company from Toronto, to design the new theme. IT Business says that the "criteria for the [theme] proposals included that they respect native OS look and feel (Firefox runs on Windows, Macintosh and Linux platforms), that the themes appear modern and contemporary with current Web and client apps and appear consistent across platforms."

So now we have translucent buttons, an improved search box and new tab strip that shows the active tab prominently. There's also an arrow next to the last tab that hides a list of all the open tabs.

It really only looks like IE7 because of the Windows XP themed window. IE7 screwed up thier interface by locking the nav bar on top instead of the file menu. Also in IE7, they lost me totally when they locked the refresh button on the right side of the address bar. I did not know I even used it till I had to search for it. I only use IE for web development now. Firefox rules and would totally rule if they can get the memory hogging fixed.

I kinda agree with Robin, they seriously, BADLY need to fix the memory problems.Firefox has to be the worst program i've ever used in terms of coding.I mean, i went from 32% RAM to 97% in about 1 hour 30-ish minutes.And memory rarely ever "clears" itself, and neither does Firefox! (until closed)

COME ON MOZILLA! This is a joke!Oh its okay anyway, we only have to wait till release THREE till they have fixed them... ¬_¬Hell even Windows is programmed better than that!And my friend Graeme wonders why i hate FF so much!

They should have a look at Opera, it runs perfectly fine for me, even with "heavy-load" pages, with many open, it still averages out at 7-10% RAM.